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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daisy not see in the Italian men she goes out with?

2. What is Daisy doing that makes Mrs. Walker say she has disgraced herself?

3. How does Mrs. Walker react to Daisy's announcement?

4. What emotion prevents Winterbourne from going directly to see Daisy in Rome?

5. How does Daisy see her flirtations as being?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Winterbourne begin to size up Giovanelli?

2. What does Mrs. Walker say Daisy has done that is unacceptable?

3. How does Winterbourne lecture Daisy at the Palace of the Caesars?

4. How does Winterbourne respond to Mrs. Walker's request that he stop seeing Daisy?

5. Seeing Daisy with Giovanelli, how does he feel about her flirtation?

6. To solve the problem of Daisy's going alone, how does Winterbourne provide an answer?

7. Describe the difference between Mrs. Costello's opinion of Daisy and Mrs. Miller's opinion.

8. How does Winterbourne respond to Mrs. Costello?

9. What happens in the winter of the same year Winterbourne met Daisy?

10. How do the American women try to prevent Daisy from going to meet Giovanelli?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about means of travel. Discuss (although it is not mentioned per se in the novella) how the Millers came from America and the various means of transportation mentioned in the book. Your essay should then compare travel in the 19th Century to 21st Century travel.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about cause and effect. Use the idea in DAISY MILLER that the night air causes malaria. Discuss how humans need to assign a cause or blame for anything but are very often wrong in their conclusions. Include some other old wives tales that were once accepted as the truth but are disproved today.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on the irony of Mrs. Costello's objection to Daisy's seeing Italian men. Although James does not comment on it, there is an irony that Mrs. Costello has an Italian last name. Discuss how people often condemn in otherw what they accept in themselves.

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